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The Associated Press is the largest news-gathering organization in the world, disseminating news stories, photographs, graphics, audio and video.

Operating as a not-for-profit cooperative and based in New York City, the AP is owned by 1,500 daily newspaper members in the United States. Its mission is to be a global news network. The AP has more than 4,000 employees working in more than 240 bureaus throughout the world. Founded in 1846, the AP considers itself to be the world's most trusted independent news source.

The cooperative, running in a 24-hour news cycle, helps members distribute their stories and other content to other members and also picks up member stories for its use. It distributes content to 121 countries and in four languages. The AP has won 49 Pulitzer Prizes in reporting and story-telling and 30 for photography.

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The resurgence of the Maryland men’s basketball team and the emergence of freshman point guard Melo Trimble continued to gain recognition Monday.
The 10-1 Terps, who came from seven points down in the second half to beat USC-Upstate on Saturday, moved up...

Maryland junior kicker Brad Craddock received his latest honor Tuesday as he was named a second-team Associated Press All-American.
Craddock, this year’s Lou Groza Award winner, is the first Terps player to be named an AP All-American since defensive...

Let’s get this right today, so that we don’t have to bother with it for the rest of 2015. We can dispense with “not-a-word” talk and calling things “wrong” because of stylebook preferences.
Recently on Twitter, literary agent Janet Reid (@Janet_Reid)...

Someone queried the Associated Press Stylebook to find out whether AP has accepted their as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, to which the editors of the stylebook replied no. Testy Copy Editors commented on Facebook: “AP holds the line, for now, against...

I think that civilians must wonder sometimes about the mental stability of copy editors.
Only a few weeks ago, there were alarums and excursions after the editors of the Associated Press Stylebook announced that it is kosher to use...

Weary as you must be about the back-and-forth about the Associated Press Stylebook's abandonment of the over/more than distinction, I have found what may be a locus classicus of bad argument in favor of the superstition.
At Mahsable, Alex...

In what should be a cautionary example of being careful what you ask for, the Associated Press Stylebook has tweeted an invitation to identify what people like and dislike in the new edition.
The Lord has delivered them into my hands.
When I...

In what may be the greatest victory to date for the sophisticatedly asinine organization "No Labels," the Associated Press has embraced a new policy against "labeling people." For instance, its widely used and influential style guide...

I hate to seem disloyal, but it doesn't take much to touch off a kerfuffle among copy editors. And now a new one is underway.
Yes, underway, the word the Associated Press Stylebook, in all its pomp and majesty declared last week to be a single word...

The world of sport is one of upsets, results that defy logic: N.C. State beating Houston for the NCAA basketball title in 1983 or Villanova over Georgetown two years later, Larry Owings over Dan Gable in college wrestling in 1970, the 1980 Miracle on Ice,...

In Washington, as in any seat of power, most acts of folly begin with hubris. Government leaders, elected or appointed, usually don't intend to do the wrong thing, to overstep or cause harm, but they become so convinced, so certain of their purpose,...

The Justice Department's secret review of Associated Press telephone records gives advocates for federal employees one more reason to doubt the Obama administration's full commitment to protecting whistleblowers, particularly those in national security...

The 2013 edition of the Associated Press Stylebook arrived in the mail yesterday, the sixtieth consecutive annual publication of the stylebook, and frankly, I am at a loss to understand its appeal.
The AP Stylebook has outlasted the...

Yesterday I was reproached, discreetly and privately, for my tone in the post inquiring after the dumbest AP style rule. So let me say, directly and publicly, that I have met David Minthorn, Darrell Christian, and Colleen Newvine on their visits to...

A comment on Facebook responding to one of my posts recommending revisions in the Associated Press Stylebook raises a couple of issues worth examining:
Here's what bugs me: the idea that a style guide should, or is claiming to, apply...

When the Ravens made Ray Lewis their second-ever draft pick, they knew they were getting a highly productive player from the talent-rich University of Miami. What they could not have known is that Lewis would become arguably the greatest middle linebacker...

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Gov. Martin O'Malley declared Monday that Maryland is 98 percent of the way to reaching its short-term "milestone" for accelerating the state's efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay, while federal officials said all the bay watershed states...

Baltimore Gas and Electric says it has restored service to all customers who lost power due to Hurricane Irene, except for a few individual outages. "All Irene-related outages were restored by 11:30 p.m. last night," said BGE spokeswoman...

Maryland Republicans pushed Mitt Romney closer to the GOP presidential nomination Tuesday, giving the former Massachusetts governor a double-digit margin of victory on a day when he also won in Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.
With the sweep,...